tpc@leibniz.UUCP (Tom Chmara) (08/26/88)
xfig, distributed in comp.sources.x, looks wonderful, and seems quite easy to use right-out-of-the-box. Best of all, the price is right :-). I don't want to gripe, but at the same time don't want to hunt this down if someone else has fixed it... Text can only be drawn at the beginning of a session. Retrieval of saved files, saving files, or entering image will stop xfig from accepting text. By this, I mean that the "T" button is reverse-video, the "text input from keyboard" string appears in the dialog box, but nothing typed at the keyboard appears on the screen (nor on saved images). I'm running SunOS4.0 on a Sun 3/60, for what it's worth. I compiled with -f68881 in addition to the options specified in the distributed makefile. Thanks... ---tpc---
rpd@cs.cmu.edu (Richard Draves) (09/19/88)
I found a bug (I think) in reading text objects. In the function read_textobject, t->type should come before t->font. I believe the version of xfig I am using (found on expo) is of a more recent vintage than the comp.sources.x posting. I haven't seen the text problems you describe. Rich